Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Oliphant, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140436308 ISBN 13: 9780140436303

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1998

Synopsis

Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla is a superior being in every way, not least in relation to men. 'A tour de force...full of wit, surprises and intrigue...We can imagine Jane Austen reading MISS MARJORIBANKS with enjoyment and approval in the Elysian Fields' - Q. D. Leavis. Leavisdeclared Oliphant's heroine Lucilla to be the missing link in Victorian literature between Jane Austen's Emma and George Eliot's Dorothea Brook and 'more entertaining, more impressive and more likeable than either'.

About this title

Product Description:

Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla is a superior being in every way, not least in relation to men.

Book Description:

MISS MARJORIBANKS is one of her Chronicles of Carlingford. Exquisite and entertaining comedies of Victorian provincial Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140436308
• ISBN 13: 9780140436303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Jay Elisabeth